Topic sub-discipline of economic archaeology. Through a series of seven thematic Economic Archaeology Economic archaeology is the study of the interactive seminars, they will gain insight (diachronic) relationship between ancient Comparative approaches for into – and learn how to critically apply – a populations and their (available) natural selective number of comparative concepts, determining economic performance and cultural resources, as expressed methods and theories in this field that are of in archaeological and historical principally through exploitation, production, key relevance to their own research. In research from Antiquity to the distribution and consumption. Over the particular, by the end of this course, the years, archaeologists and historians have Middle Ages participating doctoral students will have become particularly interested in how acquired foundational-level skills for ancient societies ‘performed’ economically scholarship in economic archaeology with A specialist course within the Doctoral – as determined by factors such as climate, regard to the following topics: demography School Program of Arts, Humanities and geography, technology, demography and and ancient economic performance (1); Law institutions – and how this ‘performance’ the vulnerability and resilience of complex changed through time. To this purpose, societies under climate change (2); ancient scholars have developed a wide range of landscape use and satellite remote sensing methodological and conceptual tools and (3); agricultural productivity in past societies new methods of investigation. This has (4); the chaîne opératoire approach to the turned economic archaeology into an exploitation of natural resources (5); data increasingly interdisciplinary discipline, analysis and pre-modern trade networks (6); encompassing many specialized subfields and the socio-economic and spatial such as paleobotany, zooarchaeology, bio- analysis of ancient urban space (7). archaeology, geomorphology, climatology, demography and spatial analysis. At the A second important aim of this specialist same time, the application of modern course is to allow the targeted PhD economics to archaeology and history has researchers to present, discuss and receive

resulted in a greater sophistication in feedback on their work-in-progress from (theoretical) thinking. This means that national and international peers. Through Ghent University, February-May 2019 (doctoral) students need evermore and the involvement of members of the SDEP Organized by the Departments of better guidance. network, the active participation of UGent Archaeology and Ancient History, within researchers at all levels (postdoctoral and the Inter-university partnership SDEP Objectives faculty) with ample experience in

The principal aim of this course is to make economic archaeology and history, and For more information and inquiry, please PhD researchers in archaeology and history the attendance of researchers from Brussels contact: [email protected] who work on Antiquity and the Middle Ages and Leuven, the course will promote more familiar with the increasingly important knowledge transfer and the building of an expected to upload a pdf version of their Program* interdisciplinary network. PowerPoint before the seminar. All teaching

material will be made available to the

participants through a Dropbox folder. 13/02 Søren Michael Sindbaek (Aarhus University) Those who would like to include this course Attendance & Practicalities Data analysis and pre-modern trade into their Doctoral Training Program are The targeted audience of this specialist networks course consists in the first place of early requested to register ASAP by email to career doctoral researchers from the [email protected] Registration 13/03 Thomas Currie departments of Archaeology and History at is free of charge. (University of Exeter) Agricultural productivity in past Ghent University. The chronological and The seminar series is however open to all societies regional focus of the course is on the who want to deepen/share their knowledge Mediterranean and North-western Europe in on the principles, methods and theories of 27/03 Paul Erdkamp the classical, late antique and medieval economic archaeology. Both UGent and (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) period. non-Ghent researchers at all levels (PhD, Climate, complexity and the The course consists of a series of seven postdoctoral, faculty) in a relevant resilience of the Roman economy discipline are welcome and encouraged to interactive seminars, each combining a 25/04 Martin Sterry attend. Attendance is free, but for practical lecture by an external specialist, a (Durham University) reasons non-Ghent participants are asked presentation by a doctoral researcher, and Ancient landscape use and satellite to RSVP to [email protected] a discussion/feedback moment afterwards. remote sensing Each seminar lasts for three hours. prior to the start of each seminar. 09/05 Timothy Anderson Participating doctoral researchers are (Laboratoire Recherche Historique) evaluated on the basis of three criteria: The chaîne opératoire approach to 100% attendance, their own presentation the exploitation of natural resources (max. one PhD talk per seminar), and active participation in the discussion. 16/05 Neville Morley (University of Exeter) As a theoretical and methodological Demography and ancient economic background to the course, the participants performance will receive a kit of basic literature on economic archaeology at the start of the 23/05 Akkelies van Nes seminars. In addition, one week before (Western Norway University) each seminar, they are provided with The socio-economic and spatial analysis of ancient urban space lecture-specific literature to help facilitate the discussion. The invited speakers are also * time and place is TBD Speakers at the University of York. Since 2012, he is a universities of Tokyo (2009-2010) and London Professor in Archaeology at Aarhus (2010-2013), and a lecturer in Cultural

University. Evolution at the University of Exeter (2013- Søren Michael Sindbaek 2018). Thomas is currently an Associate In his award-winning work, Søren Sindbaek Professor in Cultural Evolution at the Centre has built up ample experience in the for Ecology & Conservation Biosciences of development of methods adapted from the University of Exeter. complex systems modelling and network analysis; this in particular to improve the ability of archaeology to analyze relational aspects of material culture and thus to explore issues of cross-cultural interaction in the past. Søren has published his work in over 80 journal papers and book chapters, often with considerable interdisciplinary impact. Between 2012 and 2014, he directed the ENTREPOT – Maritime Network Urbanism in Global Medieval Archaeology Project, funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF). He is currently involved in the Crafting Networks in Viking Towns project (funded by the British Academy), and is co-director of the Centre for Urban Networks Evolutions, a ground- breaking research initiative that explores the Prof. dr. Søren Sindbaek is a medieval evolution of urbanism and urban networks archaeologist who specializes in Viking Age from the Hellenistic Period to the Middle Scandinavia. His research focuses on Ages based at Aarhus University. cultural communication, exchange and social networks in Early Medieval Northern Europe, and on the application of network Thomas Currie The research of Thomas Currie focuses on theory and analysis to archaeological investigating human behavior and cultural problems. Søren has been Assistant Professor Prof. dr. Thomas Currie received his PhD in diversity using evolutionary theory. He uses in Viking Studies at the University of Aarhus Evolutionary Anthropology from University quantitative techniques to test competing until 2009. From 2009 to 2012, he was a College London. Since 2007, he has been a hypotheses about how cultural traits and lecturer in the Department of Archaeology postdoctoral research fellow at the societies change over time, and to understand what ecological and social Martin Sterry factors drive the evolution of social and Dr. Martin Sterry was awarded his PhD on political organization. In a seminal 2015 pre-Roman and Roman landscapes in article, in collaboration with archaeologists central Italy by the University of Leicester in and historians, he outlined an innovative 2010. At Leicester, between 2010 and 2017, method for incorporating archaeological he was first a Research Associate for the and historical data into crop yield models, ‘Peopling the Desert’ project (2010-2012), which can be used to predict ancient and then a postdoctoral Research Fellow for carrying capacity (Currie et al. 2015., the ERC-funded ‘Trans-Sahara’ project Agricultural productivity in past societies, (2012-2017). Since 2017, he is an Assistant Cliodynamics 6, pp. 24-56). Working versions Professor at Durham University, where he of this method are being developed as we teaches Roman landscape archaeology speak by cutting-edge research projects, and GIS. Martin is currently co-director of the such as the ‘Seshat: Global History ‘Middle Draa’ project in the Moroccan pre- Databank’. Thomas has published widely desert area. (+35 papers) within the fields of Environmental Sciences, Evolutionary Paul Erdkamp is author of Hunger and the Anthropology and Human Behavioral Sword: Warfare and Food Supply in Roman Ecology. Republican Wars (264-30 BC) (1998) and The Grain Market in the Roman Empire (2005), and editor of The Roman Army and the Paul Erdkamp Economy (2002); A companion to the Prof. dr. Paul Erdkamp studied history at the Roman army (2007), and The Cambridge University of Nijmegen, where he earned his Companion to Ancient Rome (2013). More doctoral degree in 1998. Immediately recently, he edited A Cultural History of Food afterwards, he was appointed Research in Antiquity (2014) and co-edited The Fellow at Leiden University. Paul is currently a Routledge Handbook of Diet and Nutrition in Professor of Ancient History at the the Roman World (2019). Paul’s current Department of History at the Vrije Universiteit research focus is on Climate and Society in Brussel. He is also a member of the SDEP Ancient Worlds: Diversity in Collapse and network. His research focuses on economic Resilience, with a conference scheduled in and military aspects of the Roman world, Brussels, May 22-24, 2019, co-organized with often in relation to food production, Koen Verboven and Joseph Manning. demography and climate.

Martin Sterry is an internationally renowned Since 2016, Neville is Professor in Classics and specialist in landscape archaeology, Ancient History at the University of Exeter. He Geographical Information Science (GIS), is currently an Einstein Visiting Fellow at the and survey archaeology (especially remote Freie Universität in Berlin within a program on sensing). Martin’s many publications (+30 change and instability in the ancient world. papers in specialized journals and book series) have a strong interdisciplinary focus, often exploring novel methodological and theoretical approaches for analyzing and visualizing ‘big data’ in landscape archaeology. Thematically, his work focuses on the relationships between agricultural Timothy Anderson is a specialist in the history, intensification, expansion, and population archaeology and geology of mills and demographics, in particular with regard to millstone quarries. His expertise ranges the impact of these relationships on chronologically from the Protohistoric to the urbanization and complex societies. medieval period, and geographically Chronologically, his experience ranges from covers Southwestern and Western Europe. the Iron Age to the Middle Ages, while his He has co-directed fieldwork (excavations) personal fieldwork extends geographically in Switzerland and France. The publication from Britain to North Africa. of his doctoral thesis – entitled ‘Turning stone to bread: a diachronic study of millstone making in Southern Spain – with Oxbow Timothy Anderson Books in 2016 was received with great Dr. Timothy Justice Anderson received his critical appraisal. Since 2000, Timothy has PhD in History from the University of Grenoble published widely on the provenance and

Alpes in 2014. He is currently an production of millstones, and on the independent researcher, connected to the multidisciplinary analysis of ancient quarries. Neville Morley is the author of Metropolis Laboratoire de Recherche Historique. He is and Hinterland. The City of Rome and the also a member of the ‘Groupe Meule’ in Italian Economy (200 BC- AD 200), a France, an interdisciplinary research group Neville Morley controversial and impactful study on the impact of Rome on the Italian economy that brings archaeologists and geologists Prof. dr. Neville Morley received his PhD in that has become a standard reference together for the study of ancient mills and Classics from the University of Cambridge. work in Roman economic history since its milling techniques. He was a temporary lecturer in Classics at publication in 1996. Over the last twenty the University of Wales (1994-1995) and then years, Neville has written or (co-edited) nine a fixed lecturer at the University of Bristol. books on topics such as Roman Imperialism currently a Professor in Land Use Planning in built environments, studies on larger groups (2010), trade in Classical Antiquity (2007), the Department of Civil Engineering at the of cities and metropolises, configurable and more general on theoretical and University College Bergen, and a researcher urban sustainability, and the development methodological approaches to Ancient at the Department of Urban Renewal and of spatial analyses tools. She has published History (2004). Prof. Morley has published Management of the Delft University of over 100 journal articles, book chapters and widely on Roman socio-economic history Technology. She owns the firm Space Syntax conference papers, and she has co-edited and archaeology, with over 50 papers on Norway. four books. While the work of Akkelies is demography, migration, mobility, rooted in modern urban planning, she has urbanization, ancient globalization, slavery, successfully applied micro- and macro agriculture, trade and markets in various spatial configurative analyses (space internationally renowned publications (e.g. syntax) to archaeology, and in particular to Journal of Roman Studies, Brill publishers, the Roman town of Pompeii in southern Italy Oxford University Press, Cambridge (van Nes, A. 2014. Indicating street vitality in University Press). His current work focuses on excavated towns. Spatial configurative a series of articles on Roman economic analyses applied to Pompeii, in Polla, S. et al. thought and the Roman agronomists, in (eds.), Spatial Analysis and Social Spaces, which he seeks to develop a novel pp. 277-296). understanding of how Romans thought about socio-economic matters.

Akkelies van Nes Prof. dr. Akkelies van Nes is an acclaimed architect who has studied at the Oslo School of Architecture, the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies and University College Akkelies van Nes specializes in studies on the London. She obtained her PhD in 2002 at the relationship between road building and urban change, location patterns of shops in Norwegian University of Life Sciences. She is